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...when his dissertation snagged a no-strings-attached fellowship, Sen gained a few years of open-ended study at Cambridge. He turned to philosophy, focusing in particular on epistemology and moral and ethical topics. At Harvard, he has taught extensively in both the economics and philosophy departments...
...University rhetoric against undergraduate professional training denies that Harvard, however dignified its academic programs are, ultimately prepares its students for certain career paths, such as medical school, fellowship work or consulting. To this the College’s Admissions webpage attests: “Although Harvard’s academic programs are not ‘pre-professional’ in the sense that they provide vocational training, Harvard students are very well prepared for admission to professional schools (business, law, medicine) and graduate programs.” Despite the rhetoric, certain Harvard students are given adequate academic and occupational...
After graduating from HLS, Mundheim received one of the University’s ten Frederick Sheldon travelling fellowships. The fellowship paid for his travelling expenses for a year, and Mundheim more than took advantage of the opportunity, working at a bank in Distledorf and a law firm in Athens before turning to Italy for the art museums and Turkey for a challenge...
...rejected, as were a few other attempts. But the summer after Updike’s graduation, preparing to study drawing at Oxford on a Knox fellowship in the fall, he wrote a short story in response to a piece by John Cheever that he had read. The New Yorker accepted it and, a bit later, bought a slightly revised version of his ex-basketball-player story, now titled “Ace in the Hole...
Members of the Harvard Christian Fellowship also participated in the procession, though not as an official contingent of the Harvard student group...